Smart Robotics announces launch of Smart Fashion Picker cobot — Retail Technology Innovation Hub

Smart Robotics, a specialist in picking automation as a service for warehouses and logistics processes, has officially launched its latest cobot – the Smart Fashion Picker.

It says that the reliability of the cobot, and its ability to run continuously, ensures quicker return on investment, whilst answering the labour crisis in logistics and bettering the physical and mental health of warehouse employees.

It can pick a large variety of fashion items, which are placed in protective wrapping, straight from a cart or bin. Vision sensors, motion and task planning algorithms help the cobot to calculate what to pick next, as well as how to pick and place the item accurately into the next bin, and it can easily detect when the bin is empty or filled.

“We’re super excited to introduce this product to the wider market after successful implementation with our initial customers,” says Johan Jardenvall, CEO at Smart Robotics.

“It has proven to deliver steady, reliable performance with the throughput necessary to be relevant in a warehouse whilst it is able to cope with the often changing large product ranges that are typical for the industry.”

“This product is an important step in our master plan to reduce repetitive and harmful work in warehouses around the globe.”

Smart Robotics says that its cobot is capable of handling items at a pace that matches human pickers, requiring very little oversight.

According to a press release: “The system ensures reliable and uninterrupted operation and doesn’t require any special training from its operators. And it can safely be managed by people of all skill levels.”

The release adds: “The Smart Fashion Picker is smarter in its ability to adapt with changing circumstances around it, such as changes in assortment, how the cobot interacts with people moving around it, etc.”

“As such,  it is capable of working in the real world of warehouses, instead of a predefined, coded, environment.”